John Trapp on Job 13:2

Verſe 2. What y[illegible: 1 letter] know, the ſame do I know alſo] Heb. According to your knowledg I alſo know: this may ſeem an unbeſeeming boaſt; which if his friends had taxed him for, he might have anſwered, as Paul did in a like caſe, Ye have compelled me, 2 Cor. 11.5. The Rule is, let nothing be done through ſtrife, or vain-glory, but in lowlineſſe of mind, let each eſteem other better then themſelves, Philip. 2.3. Non eſt tamen prodenda Dei veritas, aut integritas noſtra &c. Nevertheleſſe,Merlin. in loc. no man ought to betray the truth, or his own integrity, leſt he ſhould he counted contentious. See chap. 12.3. where we have the ſame in effect as here, whence ſome do gather, that Jobs friends had a very high opinion of their own knowledg, and a very low one of Jobs. He that is thus proud of his knowledg, the divel careth not how much he knoweth.